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I need your opinion on euthanasia. As in for those who are incurably ill or in a perminate comatose state.

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Hmm...
If they're incureably ill, it should be their choice.
If they're in a permanent comatose state, and there's no brain activity whatsoever, then I guess it should be done, too.
A doctor would be able to make this call better than I, though.

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Incurable? Kill 'em so they don't suffer, but only if they say so.
Comatose / brain dead? Kill 'em anyway.

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here is an excerpt of a paper I wrote last semester for one of my advanced nursing classes. The paper was about feeding tubes. I don't believe in euthenasia like purposely giving someone an overdose of pain medication or anything like that. I believe in letting nature take its course.:

Another question that needs to be answered when talking about feeding tubes is the issue of their removal. In my opinion, the removal of a feeding tube should be done in a similar manner to the removal of a ventilator. If tube feedings contribute to the goal of that particular patient’s treatment, which may be simply survival, then the patient should be tube fed (Fade, 1996). However, tube feedings, along with other forms of life support, should be stopped when it does not provide comfort to the patient (Way, Back, & Curtis, 2002). They should be stopped if it does not help to control pain or the symptoms of the patient’s disease (Sensky, 2002). Tube feedings should also be stopped if they are just prolonging death (Way, Back, & Curtis, 2002).

(written by DJB Fall '03)

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Why is it that you believe in removing a feeding tube, but not putting someone out of their misery ? Wouldnt simple removing the feeding tube be the same as starving them to death ? Wouldn't it therefore be more humane to shoot them in the stomach... I sure wouldnt want to just starve to death because some doctor has would rather claim he as impecible ethics than put me out of my misery.

I say if they want to die, then it's thier choice, and if they are incabable of making that decision and it is unlikely they ever will it should be the choice of thier closest realative.

I think people have the right not to suffer.

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I honestly havent decided yet, and I feel that I dont know enough about euthanasia to really make a decision either. Sorry if that doesnt help you, but thats how I feel.

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My mom currently works in a nursing home. People lose their appetite, stop eating, and die. Except, being a nursing home, patients lose their appetite and stop eating, their family freaks out and insists on a feeding tube and the patient hangs on in a hospital bed for an acutely miserable year or so and then dies. In her experience.

The point is many/most people get tubes because they stop eating because of a lack of appetite, not because it's painful or impossible or whatever. They aren't starving, they're dying. The medical intervention simply prolongs a natural process.

People should get the treatment they desire, even if it is no treatment at all or an overdose of drugs. If they're permanently comatose, I doubt they care either way.

[This message has been edited by Ictus (edited May 08, 2004).]

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Here where I live, that is, Hick Oregon, we've a law on Assisted Suicide. The terms of it are that the patient must be, in the view of several doctors, of sound mind, and suffering from a terminal(i.e. no cure, & continuing pain) illness. It's something like two doctors must sign off on the procedure, and the patient must sign off. But, Assisted Suicide can only be asked for by the patient, plus there's some time limit involved, in order to let the patient think fully over what they are getting into, they can halt the process at any time, etc...

I realise this isn't the same as euthanasia, but some of the procedure, in my opinion is applicable if one were to go down that road.

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